“The black hole can’t swallow all of that stuff,” says Lacy, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. “It has to blow some of it out.”
Posted on 12/05/2018 7:07:24 AM PST by ETL
Astronomer Mark Lacy and colleagues used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile to observe the universe’s first light, and found evidence of gusts flowing from a type of black hole called a quasar.
The wind extends about 228,000 light-years away from the galaxy that surrounds the quasar. Previously, astronomers had seen signs of these winds only about 3,000 light-years from their galaxies.
The result, published November 12 at arXiv.org, could help resolve questions about how black holes can grow with their galaxies, or shut galaxies down for good.
Black holes are best known for gravitationally gobbling everything that veers too close. Paradoxical as it sounds, supermassive black holes can also send material in the opposite direction, driving powerful flows of charged gas and plasma away from their host galaxies.
These black holes are victims of their own success, pulling in more material than they can consume at once. The excess material surrounds black holes in a tight swirling disk, where friction heats it to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius. The black hole plus that bright disk is a quasar.
All that heat, plus some help from magnetic fields, create great gusts that carry gas and plasma away (SN Online: 3/6/17).
“The black hole can’t swallow all of that stuff,” says Lacy, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. “It has to blow some of it out.”
Measuring such winds’ extent and energies could help scientists figure out how material spit out by the black holes might influence the way the galaxies grow and evolve. If the wind doesn’t blow far enough from the galaxy, for example, the material in the gusts could fall back down into the galaxy and be recycled into new stars — or blown back out again (SN: 7/21/18, p. 16).
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far-flung wind from a black hole...
It wasn’t me.
Eggman... have you been eating rock snails again?!?
So, they found the universe’s first blow job?..................
:)
Popping corn right now!!
In all seriousness, an article that is almost too hard for me to comprehend in a universe so vast I CANNOT comprehend it at all.
Science that just BOGGLES and ASTOUNDS me.
How does one not believe in a God with all this?
But that’s for another thread.
Breathtaking picture, BTW
The winds from the beginning of the universe? We haven’t even found the edges or the middle yet, and have a 99% chance of never finding them. It’s a bit early to say we’ve found stuff from the beginning.
But it's not too late to look for the things preceding the end.
>>Breathtaking picture, BTW
I thought it was a The Pink Floyd album cover
LOLOL!
One reason it may be hard to understand is that the article is complete garbage: “from a type of black hole called a quasar” is as red as red flags get that the author is ignorant of the subject.
Exactly.. but hey.. We are not supposed to comprehend it. Heck.. time doesn’t even exist.. We created the concept to make sense out of everything.
From what I understand, black holes are more of at gateway or wormhole.
In reality they are a complete fiction. No one has ever observed one, and the physics that describe them belong in the realm of absurdities. If you dig deep into the question of “how do we know black holes exist”, you find out that the basis for claiming they exist is breathtakingly flimsy.
The wind extends about 228,000 light-years away from the galaxy that surrounds the quasar. Previously, astronomers had seen signs of these winds only about 3,000 light-years from their galaxies.These winds have been observed for years in interstellar and intergalactic objects called Herbig-Haro Ogjects. They are numerous. . . but none of them can be explained by using a gravity driven cosmology explanation or one which accepts Black Holes, Neutron Stars, or Quasars, but one which can explain all of those, and demonstrate the in the microcosm in the high voltage plasma laboratory in the —Electric Universe Cosmology — PING!
The result, published November 12 at arXiv.org, could help resolve questions about how black holes can grow with their galaxies, or shut galaxies down for good.
Black holes are best known for gravitationally gobbling everything that veers too close. Paradoxical as it sounds, supermassive black holes can also send material in the opposite direction, driving powerful flows of charged gas and plasma away from their host galaxies.
These black holes are victims of their own success, pulling in more material than they can consume at once. The excess material surrounds black holes in a tight swirling disk, where friction heats it to hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius. The black hole plus that bright disk is a quasar. (Quasars do not exist as theorized by orthodox cosmologists in the Electric/Plasma Universe Cosmology — Swordmaker)
All that heat, plus some help from magnetic fields (Some help? Plasma is by definition a fourth state of matter that require it have an electrical charge, and electricity by its nature flows, and a flow of electrons by its nature creates magnetic fields which contain the plasma, and create heat!— Swordmaker), create great gusts that carry gas and plasma away (SN Online: 3/6/17).
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Great rebuttal, Swordy. Thanks for the ping.
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